----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff" <tripl...@sympatico.ca> To: <discuss@openoffice.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:47 PM Subject: [discuss] Re: piece of crap word processor
> On January 11 2010 8:02 pm, Alex Nyunt wrote: > > > Michael, > > > > I appreciate your response. Indeed, compared to the tone of much of the > > mail I have received in reference to this, your response is measured and > > reasonable. > > > > What can I say? I was angry. I am still angry. A large volume of people > > have pointed out that OpenOffice does have autosave, a fact of which I am > > aware, having used this program in one form or another for about seven > > years; however, in this case that function did not work. The program > > froze and when I restarted it, instead of encountering the recover > > function as I > > expected, the main menu came up--no recover. Since there seems to be > > actual communication going on at this point, perhaps you could look into > > the reasons that something like that might occur so that it doesn't happen > > to anyone else in the future. > > The autosave function was broken in one version of OOo. It was 3.0.? I can't > remember exactly, but I do remember being extremely frustrated when I lost > about eight hours work because I had come to rely on the autosave feature > working. System crash? It should be able to be set so you're prompted to save your file upon exiting the program. Therefore it still shouldn't be a problem unless the system crashed. You're not saying you use Windoze like I do, are you? <g> I mean I may be wrong but I've long heard about Linux's stability that there was one obvious conclusion. But luckily the auto recover function works when all else fails. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
